The Carnivora generally closely resemble the Dog, but in the Cat the whole of the maternal part of the placenta is carried away with the foetal parts, so that the placenta is more completely deciduate than in the Dog.
In theCarnivora again we have to start from the discoidal placenta, as shewn by the fact that the allantoic region of the placenta is at first discoidal (p.
It had been her intention to wait until after midnight, when most of the carnivora would have made their kills, and then attempt to reach the cave in which I was imprisoned and rescue me.
There were fewer reptiles; but the quantity of carnivora seemed to have increased, and the reptiles that we did see were perfectly gigantic.
Here I brought down a young buck, the report of my rifle sending the balance of the herd scampering for the woods, where they were met by a chorus of hideous roars as the carnivora took advantage of their panic and leaped among them.
The dead man was stripped of his belongings and left where he had died; the carnivora would take care of his burial.
Facing the huge cat, which I now saw was an enormous panther, I waited until I could place a shot where I felt it would do the most good, for at best a frontal shot at any of the large carnivora is a ticklish matter.
Day was breaking; soon the carnivorawould stalk forth for their first kill; I was armed only with my knife.
Tarzan knew how strange were the workings of the brains of the mighty carnivora of the jungle--how fiendishly fearless they might be in the face of certain death, and again how timid upon the slightest provocation.
The warm blood of his kill smeared his hands and face and filled his nostrils with the scent that the savage carnivora love best.
This struggle is analogous to the quick and decisive battles of the carnivora when fighting among themselves or when contending against their ancient enemies.
The rate of energy discharge is especially high in animals evolved along the line of hunter and hunted, such as the carnivora and the herbivora of the great plains.
Luck and only luck it must have been which had permitted that first shot to lay low one of the savage creatures, for even such a heavy weapon as my pistol is entirely inadequate against even the lesser carnivora of Caspak.
Present in all vertebrates, there seems to be more of it in the carnivora than in the herbivora, like the thyroid.
He knew that lions and leopards, hyenas and other carnivora infested the country in which he then was.
But there will also be carnivora destroying the herbivora; while small rodents, like the lemming and some of the field-mice, often destroy so much vegetation as materially to affect the food of all the other groups of animals.
It would seem, in short, that the eggs of nematodes which normally take up their residence in cats, dogs, and in the carnivora which reside in arid regions, will develop embryos in the egg without external moisture.
From like causes the Ascaris leptoptera and other varieties infesting the carnivora have been regarded as distinct species, but the worm also varies in one and the same host.
The Carnivora in the Zoological Gardens were formerly less freely exposed to the air and cold than at present, and this change of treatment, as I was assured by the former superintendent, Mr. Miller, greatly increased their fertility.
The Plantigrade Carnivora breed under confinement much less freely, without our being able to assign any reason, than other members of the group.
In that age and under such conditions as to locality it was inevitable that the creature, man, running through such a forest path at night, must face some fierce creature of the carnivora seeking his body for food.
The well-thrown spear had been, in other ages, a vast surprise to the carnivora of the period, but there was something yet to learn.
Thence it passes to the tarsus, and terminates in different fashion in carnivora and other quadrupeds.
This muscle, triangular in shape, better developed in the carnivora than in the horse, arises from the spine of the ischium, or from the supracotyloid crest, which replaces this latter in the solipeds and the ruminants.
It is accordingly in the carnivora that the mode of termination of the tibialis posticus most nearly resembles that of this same muscle in the human species.
In short, the sartorius is of interest to us in the carnivora only, and especially on account of its anterior or patellar fasciculus.
Such are the general characters; the following are the particular ones: In the carnivora it is thick and convex.
F), it is represented in the horse and the carnivora by a small fleshy fasciculus only, the fronto-palpebral muscle, similar to the superciliary muscle.
The nutritive process in the carnivora thus presents itself under two distinct forms; one of which we again meet with in the graminivora.
Food is used by all animals for the sake of the force it thus contains, the remark applying to the carnivora as well as the herbivora.
In the higher carnivoraand quadrumana the posterior or tertiary lobes appear.
When they had eaten all they required, the mother gluttonously devoured all that was left, without ceasing to watch a third mole, round which the two young carnivora were prowling.
Unicorns' flesh must be an especially choice morsel with the carnivora in this part of the country, for I have been literally beset since Mildmay left me.
The close student of animal anatomy can produce an appalling snarl of anger on the heads of the larger carnivora or change the same to a sleepy yawn or grin in a few minutes' manipulation.
Some of the most striking groups are those of the larger carnivora in combat, but they hardly possess the real value of painstaking life studies of some of our more familiar kindred of the wild.
Amongst the terrestrial carnivora hibernation appears to be practised, with one possible exception, only by species belonging to the group Arctoidea.
Besides these carnivora some very peculiar forms are found, the most remarkable of which is Aelurus, sometimes called the cat-bear, a type akin to the American racoon.
In general, the non-ferungulate part of the Angels Peak faunule seems to depart more widely from what is typical of the "Torrejon" fauna than do the Carnivora and Condylarthra.
Which carnivora have been most successful in resisting man's advance?
Peculiar and interesting carnivora to be seen in museums and zoological gardens.
But the carnivora are in the same way eaten by their stronger and more adroit fellow-boarders.
Of mammals, the carnivora and rodents often practice a certain, at least temporary, monogamy.
Man and woman, as is the case with other primates and the carnivora (for most herbivora are polygamous) represent two sexes made to live united and to share jointly in the cares for their offspring.
The existence of the carnivora depends upon the sacrifice of the herbivora.
The attitude of the warlike and powerful nations in the past toward the weaker nations has been very similar to that of the carnivora toward the herbivora.
How many years this poor terrible relic of humanity had lived here alone; how it had gained its living; how escaped the fierce carnivora of the desert, were mysteries that no man could answer.
According to his theory these great carnivora are as readily bagged as wild duck at a vlei.
The Carnivora with the Bears, Apes, and Man, as being the proper representatives of the senses, conclude or wind up the list.
In like manner do the rapacious Carnivora divide into three groups.
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